Accessibility policy

Definition

The definition of web accessibility according to Tim Berners-Lee, manager of W3C and inventor of the World Wide Web, is as follows: « Making the web and its services available and accessible to everyone, regardless of their hardware, software, network infrastructure, language, culture, location, or physical or mental ability ».

Legislation

The accessibility of public services for disabled people is a necessity under the terms of law 2005-102 of February 2005 concerning the equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of disabled people. Article 47 of the above-mentioned law states that the online public communication services of the state’s departments, local authorities and related public establishments must be accessible to disabled people. The application decree for this law was published in the Official Journal on May 16, 2009 http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/

Reference

Guidelines applied

This website seeks to be as accessible as possible but is not perfect and much work still remains to be done. Please feel free to send your comments and suggestions to webmaster@unilim.fr. Standards compliance: this website is compliant with W3C standards with regard to the development of webpages. Only the main pages (home, contacts, site map, search engine, etc. and a number of content pages) have been tested. The sizes of the blocks comprising the page (menus, content, etc.) are expressed in relative units, with their scaling therefore being adapted to the content. The character sizes have been defined with proportional units, i.e. you can modify the size of the characters at your convenience by using the appropriate features built into your browser: